Pittock Mansion Currently Seeking Entries for Juried Art Exhibit — Entries due May 18, 2012
From July 14, 2012 through November 11, 2012, Pittock Mansion will feature the juried art exhibit, Let Us Speak Our Minds: Contemporary Art Views on Women’s Right to Vote in Oregon. 2012 marks the 100th anniversary of women winning the right to vote in Oregon. The purpose of this exhibit is to interpret through paintings, drawings, sculpture, and multimedia art the meaning of women’s right to vote, and to reflect on the dedication and struggle required to achieve that right in 1912, and what that right has meant to the state in the hundred years since.
Historical Background: Oregonians hotly debated women’s suffrage for decades, and voted it down five times before its passage. The issue could divide families, such as that of local suffrage activist Abigail Scott Duniway and her brother, Harvey Scott, the influential editor of Henry Pittock’s newspaper, The Oregonian. The views of Henry and Georgiana Pittock, the couple who built Pittock Mansion, regarding women’s suffrage are unknown. While Scott, Pittock’s editor, strongly opposed women’s suffrage, The Oregonian began supporting the cause after Scott’s death in 1910. Georgiana Pittock was active promoting the welfare of women and children through local charities, but there is no record of her thoughts on the right to vote.
Pittock Mansion is currently seeking entries for Let Us Speak Our Minds: Contemporary Art Views on Women’s Right to Vote in Oregon. Please see the following links for complete details and registration form.
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